A very formulaic tale about a naive young woman who nearly loses her soul after being caught up in the woman-eats-woman world of fashion, the book must have obviously lost something in the filmic translation.
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06/30/06
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
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Reviews Counted:181
Fresh:136
Rotten:45
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: A rare film that surpasses the quality of its source novel, this Devil is a witty expose of New York's fashion scene, with Meryl Streep in top form and Anne Hathaway more than holding her own.
Theatrical Release:Jun 30, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $124,703,638
Synopsis: A drastic improvement on Lauren Weisberger‘s bestselling novel, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA showcases Meryl Streep's knack for combining humor and sadness. While likely inspired by notorious VOGUE editor... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker
Director: David Frankel
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Reviews for The Devil Wears Prada
Come February, it might be very fashionable to present Streep with another Oscar
06/30/06
The film captures New York in all of its media-lashed uproar, [and] Paris in the spring has rarely looked so heart-swellingly gorgeous. But the most impressive natural wonder in the film is Meryl Streep [in] one of her most wickedly inspired comic perform
06/30/06
Not as scathing as the book but Meryl does turn in a performance worthy of making interns and assistants everywhere shudder. Plus, she gets to be mean and look fabulous at the same time.
06/30/06
Streep's comic timing is so on-the-mark that she even manages to get a sizable laugh with the simplest line imaginable: 'Go.'
06/30/06
[Streep] chows down on this meaty role with relish and smartly dimensionalizes her demonic diva (some sympathy for the Devil?), so she's both satisfyingly ruthless and scarifyingly real.
06/30/06
The actor who nearly steals the film away... is Stanley Tucci... Early handicappers for next year's Oscar race take note.
06/30/06
If it rarely becomes more than a conventional Hollywood movie with conventional conflicts, at least it remembers to amuse, and has a force of nature in Streep.
06/29/06
The filmmakers have defanged the entire idea, choosing to turn Andrea's trip to hell and back into a series of pre-digested I heart New York sequences aimed at the average Perez Hilton reader.
06/29/06
Buying a ticket to this instead of Superman Returns this week is like ordering pizza on Thanksgiving, but Streep gives Miranda the kind of authority and steely stare that would make a Navy SEAL shake in his boots.
06/29/06
...The Devil Wears Prada is aimed at the youthful fashion-conscious femme audience and it hits its target squarely.
06/29/06
The reason the Streep, Tucci, and Blunt characters work so well is that they all have clear character focuses. But Hathaway's movie heroine, Andy Sachs, is as ambivalent as her name.
06/29/06
mediocre at best, namely because it just doesn't live up to the promise of its title. Priestly may be evil, but she's not the devil
06/29/06
Streep and Tucci are wonderful (but) best of all is Emily Blunt, who plays the bitchy, ambition-obsessed Emily with a deft touch.
06/29/06
If The Devil Wears Prada weren't so infectiously entertaining, it may have been regrettable.
06/29/06
...a film for adults that seems refreshing with its lack of superheroes, special effects, and a bloated runtime.
06/29/06
At once coolly indifferent and fanatically detail-obsessed, coiffed off-white hair emphasizing a hawk's hooded gaze, Streep is the scariest, most nuanced, funniest movie villainess since Tilda Swinton's nazified White Witch.
06/29/06
Top CriticCrafted like a high end TV show, it's a sort of video Vogue -- lite, brite and trite.
06/29/06
Top CriticThe movie has a lot going for it: a privileged look inside the world of fashion journalism, a magical interlude in a storybook Paris, bright supporting performances by Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt, the likable presence of Hathaway, and, of course, Streep
06/29/06
A sharp, surprisingly funny excursion into the catty realm of women's magazines.
06/29/06
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